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Nicole Rosner

Nicole Rosner is a postdoctoral fellow in the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the UChicago Department of Anthropology. Her research concerns the everyday politics of city-making and the violent reproduction of social, spatial, and racial inequality. Her regional interests lie in Latin America, particularly Brazil. She received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley with a designated emphasis in global metropolitan studies, her M.Sc. in city design and social sciences from the London School of Economics, and her B.A. from Harvard University with honors. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled: Remaking the City, Unmaking Democracy: The Afterlives of Urban Renewal in Rio de Janeiro. [email protected]


Designs on solidarity

Posted: Fri, May 08, 2020 - 10:47:48

If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. — Lilla Watson Over the past weeks we find ourselves pausing before signing off on email messages. We used to include a habitual "How are you?" or "I hope…